Word: duds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists of the past. Veteran Performer Gary Graffman, however, has found his own drastic solution. Before Graffman goes on tour he consults his Truth Box, a card file indexed by city and state, with his own appraisal of the pianos available. If the card indicates the piano is a dud, and the sponsor fails to provide a substitute, Graffman cancels the concert...
...missed Harry too. Bob Harrison, a combustive man who lit the fuse on the longest and most anticipated dud firecracker that Cambridge has known in its athletic history or will ever hope to know. Harry, a man who plotted and schemed in dark corners and at locker room blackboards fro five uninspirational years, hoping at each turn in the road that the solution, the missing link, the lost piece in the jigsaw puzzle would stumble against his feet, and allow at long last his masterplan to reach a productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring...
...grotesque fantasy: Big Business in blue suits calmly watching a colleague throw himself from a skyscraper window; Inhuman Science manipulating evolution by transplanting a man's head onto the heaving hulk of a hairy hog. Critics have called the film everything from "heartbreakingly perceptive" to "a laborious, sophomoric dud...
Things stumbled to a start with four flop musicals that lost their producers and backers a total of $2.5 million (Ambassador, Lysistrata, Dude and Via Galactica). The most spectacular were Dude-quickly nicknamed "Dud"-which lost about $900,000 and Via Galactica-originally titled Up-which went down for the same amount. With equal fatality, the new plays of the year came and, for the most part, went. Average losses: $200,000. Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business, which closed last week after 40 performances, was the sixth play of the season to fold...
...Hampshire-Dartmouth: After just wasting all that space on such a dud of a game. I'd better start being more concise. Pick one Godzilla or Little Bo-Peep, Beaujolais or Mogan David Mad Dog. WBCN or WHRB. Biochem 110 or Soc Sci 152, Dartmouth or UNH. Look at it this way, one's big and beastly and one isn't. One's got class and one doesn't. One's entertaining and popular and one isn't. One is rough and grunty and one isn't. And finally, one team will be alive after this afternoon...